Dear CIfA Member The City of Cape Town has updated and added to the PT Zone delineations in terms of Item 137(C) of the DMS. These updates and additions to the PT Zones are helpful in facilitating development in the city. See attached below Staff Circular. Annexure A (1) Staff circular 07 of 2020_Updated PT …
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Dear CIfA Member Following President Ramaphosa’s declaration of a 21-day national lockdown from 27 March – 16 April 2020, arrangements in respect of the notification of land use development applications are applicable immediately. The below City of Cape Town Staff Circular below, informs members of the impact of the Lockdown on: Pre-Application Consultations; LUM application …
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Below, see correspondence between CIfA President, Henk Lourens and the Registrar of SACAP , Adv. Toto Fiduli regarding the 2020/2021 SACAP invoices issued Sent: Wednesday, 01 April 2020 13:49/ Subject: SACAP 2020/2021 invoices Dear Toto We have received numerous calls regarding the invoices which were issued to our members and other SACAP registered professionals today. …
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See below City of Cape Town MEDIA RELEASE – City will continue receiving, assessing applications during lockdown. MEDIA RELEASE – City will continue receiving assessing applications during lockdown
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and following the lockdown announcement by the President of South Africa on 23 March 2020, the 5th term Council of the South African Council for the Architectural Profession (SACAP) has resolved that the deadline for submission of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits is immediately extended until 30 June 2021. Accordingly, …
Dear CIfA Member As the number of COVID-19 cases in the country continue to rise, and after much deliberation, the Management Committee of the Cape Institute for Architecture (CIfA) decided to suspend all presentations, events and meetings at the CIfA premises until 15 April 2020. This is in response to the growing coronavirus outbreak and …
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To CIfA Members The Explanatory Guide to the City of Cape Town: Municipal Planning Amendment By-law 2019, is attached for your records. MPBL 2019 Amendments Guideline Document
The Cape Institute for Architecture (CIfA) wishes to draw its members’ attention to the potential risk to practices, clients and the construction industry posed by the Transitional Arrangement SOP 06/2019 – which was issued to members in late 2019 – where it stipulates that BDM applications, which are not yet approved but where scrutiny fees …
Dear CIfA Members The Gauteng High Court Section 9 Judgement sent out in the recent News Flash was confirmed in the Constitutional Court judgement of 7th June 2018. Constitutional Court Judgement can be downloaded here. The Constitutional Court declined to give retrospective effect to its finding on the unconstitutionality of s.9, permitting all the then-current …
Dear CIfA Member We remind our members of the 2017 Gauteng High Court judgement which declared ‘…….that section 9 of the National Building Regulations and Building Standards Act, No. 103 of 1997, to the extent that it empowers the National Building Regulations Review Board to exercise appellate power over decisions of a municipality, is unconstitutional …